Tracing the Arctic regions : exploring ice and time in nineteenth-century photographs of Greenland
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- "Tracing The Arctic Regions: Exploring Ice and Time in Nineteenth-Century Photographs of Greenland" is a study of a single, rare photographic book. Created by the American marine painter, William Bradford, The Arctic Regions was a lavish publication that paired the artist's narrative of an audacious art expedition to Greenland with 141 photographs taken to document the journey. This dissertation treats these images both as traces of real things—the people, animals, and ice that existed on the western coast of Greenland in the summer of 1869—and as expressions of how nineteenth-century Americans understood natural history and their place on its lengthening arc. Case studies of specific photographs show how images of a world that seemed strange and remote helped Americans to understand their home environments and the rights of others living within them. With attention to distant and often-marginalized subjects, "Tracing The Arctic Regions" is a study of how different kinds of looking—close looking, past looking, and environmental looking—can generate new perspectives in art history in an age of changing climate.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2018; ©2018 |
| Publication date | 2018; 2018 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | LeBourdais, George Philip |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Nemerov, Alexander |
| Thesis advisor | Nemerov, Alexander |
| Thesis advisor | Marrinan, Michael |
| Thesis advisor | Wolf, Bryan Jay |
| Degree committee member | Marrinan, Michael |
| Degree committee member | Wolf, Bryan Jay |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Art and Art History. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | George Philip LeBourdais. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Art and Art History. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2018. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2018 by George Philip LeBourdais
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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